Number 4 Birthday Cake

Heya, I was wondering whether anyone could help me! I've tried googling but all I get is rubbish lol.
I'm thinking about making a number 4 shaped birthday cake for my son's birthday. I'm struggling for ideas on how to decorate it though. I've seen number 5 cakes decorated into a race track thing, but unsure whether it would work as a number 4.
I'm not brilliant at making cakes either lol.
Has anyone else made a number 4 cake at all?

Hi I think you could do it. If it is a number 4 shaped like that you could add a bit of extra sugar paste where it crosses over and turn it in to a bridge for the cars to go over so it looks like the other part of the track continues under the bridge. You could add small black circles to either side of the sugar paste to make it look like a tunnel for a more realistic look. Sugar paste is really like using play doh although, it does dry out quicker so you have to work quite fast. You can get lots of brilliant colours from cake shops. If you think you could make a race track out play doh chances are you could do it with sugar paste.

If you wanted to do something a little less adventurous you could just have a number four covered in a coloured sugar paste decorated with little toy cars and use those supermarket pens to write happy birthday (name) and the number four.

Thank you so much, its hard to explain in writing, but I would do the number 4 the other way as it would be more simple to make.
Thank you so much for your advice, I had no idea sugar paste dries so quickly. Im pretty clueless!

Thank you so much, its hard to explain in writing, but I would do the number 4 the other way as it would be more simple to make.
Thank you so much for your advice, I had no idea sugar paste dries so quickly. Im pretty clueless!

If you are doing it the other way then I would have the racing track going along the longest bit with the angle. The other bit you could have the wrighting on Happy birthday (name) at the top and number four on the bottom.

The race track would be easy all you would need is sugar paste in grey if the shop does not do grey mix a bit of black with white and roll out and then cut to shape. You could then add lines down the middle with white sugar paste and line the edges with green bushes. It would be easy to make the bushes all you would need is green sugar paste and a cocktail stick to add the detail. I would use little toy cars instead of trying to make your own from sugar paste and at least that way your son could play with them after.

I have a huge square cake tin so made the cake and cut a four out using the offcuts to extend the number lines. I used green royal icing to ice the cake and made some trees and a fence. I made some little road signs and just attached poles (toothpicks) into the cake directly (toothpicks also helped to hold some trees upright). I then made black icing (needed LOADS of colouring and was never really black - I used the powdered colouring) and rolled out two road that intersected at the junction of the four and rolled little white lines down the middle of them. I bought little chocolate cars online (similar to these Chocolate Racing Cars ) and placed them on the cake.